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Originally posted by Voyager

...I was very fortunate to have Dave"Stinkpotter" as my DPO,...

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Originally posted by Voyager

I agree with all you've said here. I was very fortunate to have Dave"Stinkpotter" as my DPO, and the guy he sold Passage to had her for less than a year and didn't do any damage as far as I could tell.
I've been watching "Sail Life", a weekly series on YouTube about a Danish SW developer guy named Mads who lives on a small boat and is working on a 42 footer named Athena that he plans to sail worldwide once he's finished commissioning her. The boat was a wreck! She had a teak deck that was screwed into the fiberglass decking with hundreds of SS screws, allowing moisture to seep into the deck core (foam and plywood), but also inside the hull which dampened the hull core.
His optimism and enthusiasm for DIY repairs is almost unbelievable.
He spends every weekend repairing and filming his work, and publishes his weekly show on Sunday night Denmark time, or Sunday afternoon my time.
His mantra is do the absolute best job you know how to do on any part of the project, but don't worry! The best part about DIY is if you mess it up, you can always redo it right, or at least better. He's made several attempts at drying out the hull and only when he bought a vacuum pump and a silicon heating pad was he able to get the moisture content of the hull down to an acceptable level.
He ripped the old teak deck up and cut through the upper layer of fiberglass one small section at a time, tore out the wet core material, dried it out and replaced the old wood with foam. He took off an old forward hatch and created a larger one and glassed in the frame for it. He checked on an American boat fixer-upper on YT to get good advice on other parts of the project.
He admits he's not a pro, just willing to put in the sweat equity. And if something doesn't come out perfect, he's willing to do it over. That's awesome!

I have been watching that show too! The guy is amazing... smart, optimistic, good natured... just recommended it to a neighbor by our slip who is in the midst of a refit

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Originally posted by Voyager


He ripped the old teak deck up and cut through the upper layer of fiberglass one small section at a time, tore out the wet core material, dried it out and replaced the old wood with foam. H

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Originally posted by Voyager

I don't know what the D stands for, but lo those many years ago when I snapped her up from the PO, you referred to yourself as the DPO.

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Originally posted by Voyager

I agree with all you've said here. I was very fortunate to have Dave"Stinkpotter" as my DPO, and the guy he sold Passage to had her for less than a year and didn't do any damage as far as I could tell.
I've been watching "Sail Life", a weekly series on YouTube about a Danish SW developer guy named Mads who lives on a small boat and is working on a 42 footer named Athena that he plans to sail worldwide once he's finished commissioning her. The boat was a wreck! She had a teak deck that was screwed into the fiberglass decking with hundreds of SS screws, allowing moisture to seep into the deck core (foam and plywood), but also inside the hull which dampened the hull core.
His optimism and enthusiasm for DIY repairs is almost unbelievable.
He spends every weekend repairing and filming his work, and publishes his weekly show on Sunday night Denmark time, or Sunday afternoon my time.
His mantra is do the absolute best job you know how to do on any part of the project, but don't worry! The best part about DIY is if you mess it up, you can always redo it right, or at least better. He's made several attempts at drying out the hull and only when he bought a vacuum pump and a silicon heating pad was he able to get the moisture content of the hull down to an acceptable level.
He ripped the old teak deck up and cut through the upper layer of fiberglass one small section at a time, tore out the wet core material, dried it out and replaced the old wood with foam. He took off an old forward hatch and created a larger one and glassed in the frame for it. He checked on an American boat fixer-upper on YT to get good advice on other parts of the project.
He admits he's not a pro, just willing to put in the sweat equity. And if something doesn't come out perfect, he's willing to do it over. That's awesome!

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Originally posted by bjoye

I’d like to formally apologize to my PO. In some of my previous posts, I was somewhat critical of previous work done to my boat. Now, I recently discovered that my PO was an active member on the forum about 10 years ago. After looking up all of his previous posts, I now have a much better picture on the history of the boat. I realized that we are all limited by skill, money, and time and are trying to do the best we can to maintain a rather complex machine. If we all had unlimited resources, we’d be sailing new a Beneteau, right? And not spending every hour of valuable vacation time covered in fiberglass and paint.

And to the next owner, who will be reading my posts +10 years from now, I plead for mercy. I’m new at all of this, even though I read, and studied, and got great advise from other members, I still manage to royally screw up multiple times. I'm sure you will find some of them. I’d always intended to come back and ‘re-do’ a number of projects, when I finished with more important items. Guess I never got around to it.

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